John Giorno
(1936-2019)
American writer
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John Giorno (December 4, 1936 – October 11, 2019) was an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1964). He was also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
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4 December 1936 New York, USA
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11 October 2019 (aged 82) New York City, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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